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physical examination

noun

  1. an examination, usually by a physician, of a person's body in order to determine the person's state of health or physical fitness, such as for military service or participation in a sport.


physical examination

noun

  1. med the process of examining the body by means of sight, touch, percussion, or auscultation to diagnose disease or verify fitness


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Word History and Origins

Origin of physical examination1

First recorded in 1880–85

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Example Sentences

“Criteria to determine eligibility for a gender category should not include gynecological examinations or similar forms of invasive physical examinations, aimed at determining an athlete’s sex, sex variations, or gender,” states guideline.

While in custody, the police officers physically tortured her and forced her to undergo invasive medical and physical examinations.

Many female athletes found it and other physical examinations intrusive and humiliating.

Fueling the speculation have been the unorthodox practices of the contractors, who have been conducting physical examinations of the ballots, including inspecting their weight and thickness and examining folds on ballots under microscopes.

The growth was discovered during a routine physical examination after LeVert was traded earlier this month from the Nets as part of a package of players and draft picks that brought James Harden to Brooklyn.

The situation in England to-day is beginning to force a physical examination of employes.

Next day, going early to the training-quarters, he took his place in a squad waiting for the physical examination.

After waiting an hour or more he decided he could not have his physical examination at that time, and he went back to the cage.

Abolition of physical examination of applicants for employment.

So Harry took the physical examination and got the policy, payable to his estate.

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